Quantum thoughts

Lee Friedlander

In a recent post at Boing-Boing, science fiction writer Rudy Rucker mentions a paper (Holistic Physics, or, An Introduction to Quantum Tantra) by the "offbeat physicist" Nick Herbert:

Nick argues that our conscious minds display some of the same features as quantum mechanics. When we're not thinking about anything in particular, our thoughts evolve in a continuous, multi-universe kind of way---but when we focus on something, we carry out something like the quantum collapse that characterizes the process of measurement.

A curious foot note. Nick Herbert seemed amused and little apprehensive that his "private Quantum Tantra research" was "outed" in "the most popular blog in cyberspace":

Will this unsought publicity mean that I will have to move even deeper into the woods to avoid the mass of thrill seekers (...) I don't think so. Tomorrow at Boing-Boing this blinding spotlight of fame will thankfully be directed in some other direction and I will once more be freed to pursue my underground research into the nature of deep reality without oversight, without supervision, and in any crazy direction I damned well please.